Reconstructing Appalachia: the Civil War's aftermath

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Families, communities, and the nation itself were irretrievably altered by the Civil War and the subsequent societal transformations of the nineteenth century. The repercussions of the war incited a broad range of unique problems in Appalachia, including political dynamics, racial prejudices, and the regional economy. Andrew L. Slap's anthology Reconstructing Appalachia reveals life in Appalachia after the ravages of the Civil War, an unexplored area that has left a void in historical literature. Addressing a gap in the chronicles of our nation, this vital anthology explores little-known aspec.;A new frontier : historians, Appalachian history, and the aftermath of the Civil War / Andrew L. Slap -- Reconstruction-era violence in north Georgia : the Mossy Creek Ku Klux Klan's defense of local autonomy / Keith S. Hébert -- UnReconstructed Appalachia : the persistence of war in Appalachia / T.R.C. Hutton -- "The other war was but the beginning" : the politics of loyalty in western North Carolina, 1865-1867 / Steven E. Nash -- "Resistless uprising"? : Thomas Dixon's uncle and western North Carolinians as Klansmen and statesmen / Paul Yandle -- Reconstructing race : Parson Brownlow and the rhetoric of race in postwar east Tennessee / Kyle Osborn -- Gathering Georgians to Zion : John Hamilton Morgan's 1876 mission to Georgia / Mary Ella Engel -- "Neither war nor peace" : West Virginia's reconstruction experience / Randall S. Gooden -- A house redivided : from sectionalism to political economy in West Virginia / Ken Fones-Wolf -- "Grudges and loyalties die so slowly" : contested memories of the Civil War in Pennsylvania's Appalachia / Robert M. Sandow -- The lost cause that wasn't : east Tennessee and the myth of unionist Appalachia / Tom Lee -- "A Northern wedge thrust into the heart of the Confederacy" : explaining Civil War loyalties in the age of Appalachian discovery, 1900-1921 / John C. Inscoe -- Civil War memory in eastern Kentucky is "predominately white" : the Confederate flag in unionist Appalachia / Anne E. Marshall.